We're there aren't we, at least in the USA, we are.

First there was the need to get corporations recognized as individuals: Done!

So as not to stray, finally to get corporations the constitutional protection of free speech, after first declaring that spending money on political campaigns is, you guessed it, free speech.

Finally, give corporations the right to spend their profits as free speech in a political campaign: Done!

In a related way, create a middle class the members of which will be able to buy stock on the stock market. That way, any thing the corporation does, one is a shareholder of, is alright, so long as it adds to the bottom line. (The dismantling of the middle class may prove to be capital's achilles heel in the coming war between moral codes.)

Ah, the moral code. Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged come to mind. Ayn Rand preached across every college campus that would have her during the 1960's an Objectivism that included self indulgence and selfishness, both of which soon held sway first among the students of the time, then among the Wall Street leaders of our time, chiefly of whom one Alan Greenspan.

"She changed my life" echoed up and down Wall Street, as well as in the inner chambers of Congress, and higher climes, the White House of Ronald Reagan.

Fuck altruism! Rand would say, "how can you fuck something that doesn't exist, so don't say I said: fuck altruism!."

Plunderers we got, moral code they got! Corporations own the Congress, the Supreme Court, and, worse, the Media.

Comes now an African American President who preaches bipartisanship, apparent forgiveness of crimes comitted by Messrs Bush and Cheney, and a philosophy intended to change not only the US, but the world.

A pillowtalk philosophy--he says she's smarter than he is--that I see unfolding in his second term comprising a moral code in stark contrast to that which has many of us by the balls today. In short,

John Galt is about to be run out of town!